DISABILITY OF INDIA

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Definitions

Socio-economic profile

Attitudes to disability and disabled people Education

Employment

Health

Social security

Institutions and policies

Accessibility


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The number of people with disabilities in India is substantialand likely to grow - disability does not go away ascountries get richer

People with disabilities in India are subject to deprivation inmany dimensions of their lives.

Social attitudes and stigma play an important role in limitingthe opportunities of disabled people for full participation in

social and economic life, often even within their own families.

India has one of the more progressive disability policyframeworks in the developing world. However, there remain

huge challenges in operationalizing the policy framework


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Increasing the status and social and economic participationof people with disabilities would have positive effects oneveryone, not just disabled people.

India has a vibrant and growing disability rights movementand NGO/DPO and civil society involvement in servicedelivery for people with disabilities.

While there is a long way to go, focusing on getting thebasics right on disability policy would allow for significant

progress in the foreseeable future.


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India is in the process of

transforming itself into a developednation by 2020, yet we have 350million people who need literacy andmany more who have to acquire

employable skills to meet the needsof emerging modern India and theglobe

A. P.J. Kalam


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PWD Act,1995

National Policy on Persons with Disabilities,2005

Ratification of UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities(Oct. 2007)

State Policies starting (e.g. Chhattisgarh)

Sector-specific policies emerging e.g. National Action Plan forInclusion in Education of Children and Youth with Disabilities 2005/06


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Government also do something for

physical handicapped

*Institute for the Physically Handicapped, New Delhi.* National Institute of Visually Handicapped,Dehradun

* National Institute for Orthopaedically Handicapped, Kolkata* National Institute for Mentally Handicapped, Secunderabad.* National Institute for Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai* National Institute of Rehabilitation Training & Research,Cuttack.* National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with MultipleDisabilities, Chennai.


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DNI September2009 Issue

High Court asked Delhi government to send children withdisabilities to school

Cochlear to launch technologies for hearing impaired

National Convention of State Viklang Manchas organised byHRLN

Hearing impaired girl wins legal battle against GujaratTechnological University

New website to help disabled people find a match

Appoint special teachers for disabled children: HC to govt

Kendriya Vidyalaya students with dyslexia say schools don'tunderstand them

Central Railways fined 49 passengers for travelling incompartments for disabled people


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Bachelor's programme in sign language introduced byIGNOU

Government shows apathy for the needs of disabled children

Disability activists fight for wheelchair access insideJagannath Temple

PM unhappy with scheme for disabled people

'Disability Act should conform to UN model'

Bollywood begin to embrace disability characters in movies

Books at doorstep: Project for disabled people and seniorcitizens kicked off

CIC launches new disabled friendly complaint website

Ravenshaw University to start department of disability studies

Banks pocketing funds meant for disabled people Rehabilitation University forDisabled People inaugurated


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Disabled people protest seat reservation in the Railways

Fill up teaching posts for special education course: GDN

Online CAT poses new test for disabled people

SC wants 3% job quota for people with disabilities Delhi HC directs Centre to amend its insurance rules for

disabled people

Activists pitch for rights of disabled people ahead ofassembly elections

Patna station to be developed as disabledfriendly

Good response to special coach for disabled people on longdistance trains

Railways to run batteryoperated cars at stations for disabledpeople


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Dimensions of Disability in India

Kishor BhanushaliAssistant Professor- Economics

Mahatma Gandhi Labour InstituteAhmedabad The problem of disability is gaining more and moreimportance all over the world. The planners of India very well

understand the significance of the problem. The government of Indiaand also state governments have framed various policies for persons

with physical disabilities: reservation jobs, concession facilities in

traveling, special training institutions etc. At the same time there is a network of NGOs working for the

development of persons with physical disabilities. The present paperaims analyzing various dimensions of disability in India. The author to

understand various dimension of disability in India analyzes disabilitydata collected by Census of India 2001.

Present paper aim at analyzing the dimension of disability as reportedby Census of India 2001. The first part of the paper deals with the

definitional aspects of disability in India. The second part deals withvarious dimensions of disability, and part three with disability and work.

Conclusions of the paper are given in final part of the paper.


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Writer: Shibu Thomas

Newspaper: The Times of India

Issue: June 2006 A division bench of justices R M Lodha and A

S Bagga expressed concern that the

children had lost an academic year due toschools indifference.


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MUMBAI MIRROR - TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2007

The stark reality is that despite government rulesthat require schools to ensure that children with

learning disabilities get help in schools, barely20% of educational institutions are aware of theproblem, says Dr Samir Dalwai, pediatrician andchild psychologist who conducted the survey

along with child psychologist Dr Deepti Kanade.


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